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Developing commercial awareness for freelance legal professionals
Real-life tips for building commercial awareness Having commercial awareness is a skill sought after by in-house clients. Legal ability is understood as a given, whereas demonstrating sound business acumen will really enhance your career as a legal consultant. The...
Planning for 2022: Prepare for the unexpected with flexible legal resources
As a business or law firm, you’re operating in a world of rapid and disruptive change. To ensure your organisation is not only resilient in the face of uncertainty, but also effective and profitable, you can’t just respond to today’s challenges. You must also plan...
We need to talk about feedback in the legal industry
Does the legal industry have a problem with feedback? Anecdotally, yes. Frequently in-house lawyers complain that their law firms aren’t listening to them, prompting law.com to choose this as a trendspotter topic this July. Similarly, lawyers in private...
Get the flex advantage and access the best legal talent
Think differently to access the best talent With the Law Society Gazette reporting this week on a buoyant legal talent market as the UK navigates the world of work post-lockdown, we at Obelisk Support are increasingly being asked by our clients how they can use...
CASE STUDIES
Working with Kantar: providing flexible legal work at every levelSeptember 30, 2021
CDC Group: working to build a more sustainable futureMay 11, 2021
Case study: delivering flexibility with the British Business BankFebruary 25, 2021
Working with Bridgepoint Capital to streamline routine legal workAugust 12, 2020
Case Study: Our partnership with BTAugust 5, 2020
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Sorted: summer reading recommendations for busy lawyers
Summer reading recommendations With a second summer holiday season in a row dominated by staycations or in-country breaks, the escape to another world via a book takes on a new resonance. Welcome to our traditional summer run-down of some of the latest books...
#MeToo in Law: 3 years on since Alyssa Milano’s viral tweet
What have we learned, and what have we done? While originally coined in 2006 by social activist Tarana Burke, the #MeToo movement picked up global momentum on October 15, 2017 when Alyssa Milano tweeted a request to her followers: “If you’ve been...
How to choose a Zoom virtual background
This blog post was updated on 2 March, 2021 Zoom, the video-conferencing solution of choice during the COVID-19 crisis, had more than 300 million meeting participants per day in 2020, making it the most used video conferencing platform in front of Google Meet...